A study released by researchers in China this week found that, of all the emotions, anger is the one most successfully spread online. If that's true, and your score on the Slate News Quiz makes you angry this week, I urge you to remember the words of a prayer I read this week on the tattooed midriff of Miss Kansas: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference." Good luck!

Question 1 of 12

Titan Salvage, a Florida-based firm, this week began the yearlong process of trying to salvage what?

Question 2 of 12

The Booker Prize Foundation has changed its rules so that, beginning in 2014, what will be eligible to win the prestigious award?

Previously, authors had to be from the British Commonwealth or Ireland. Now any novel written in English is fair game.

Question 3 of 12

Syrian ambassador Bashar Jaafari announced last week that President Assad had signed what?

Question 4 of 12

What is to blame for 23,000 deaths a year, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control?

The CDC described the estimate, which focused only on deaths that could be directly attributed to the bacteria, as conservative.

Question 5 of 12

A proposal by Washington, D.C. regulators would make it the first major U.S. city to enforce a mandatory 24-hour waiting period before residents can get what?

Many tattoo parlors are near bars, and the city health department hopes to cut down on immediately regretted, alcohol-fueled tattoos and piercings.

Question 6 of 12

What was played in North Korea for the first time on Saturday?

Two South Korean weightlifters won medals at a competition in Pyongyang, leading to the first time their flag and anthem have been allowed on North Korean soil.

Question 7 of 12

A South Carolina woman named Vernett Bader was arrested for allegedly stabbing her roommate with a kitchen knife when he refused to stop doing what?

Question 8 of 12

The California legislature approved plans last week to hike what to $10, the highest in the nation?

Question 9 of 12

According to a government advisory issued Wednesday, what is expected to remain high through Sunday before subsiding?

Over 11,750 Coloradans were evacuated in the flooding. Waters are now cresting downstream into Nebraska.

Question 10 of 12

"This doesn't look like France," Jonathan Trappe posted Friday on Facebook from Newfoundland, after failing in his attempt to do what?

The Raleigh, North Carolina IT manager blamed "technical difficulties" for the crash landing.

Question 11 of 12

House Republicans agreed this week to vote on a plan that would only avert a government shutdown if what condition is met?

The bill has no hope of passing the Senate, but it does allow John Boehner to remain Speaker of the House.

Question 12 of 12

Jennifer Mee, a woman facing murder charges in Florida, became briefly famous as a teen in 2007 for doing what?

"Hiccup Girl" appeared on the Today show for her nonstop month of hiccupping. More recently, she was charged with first-degree murder for her alleged role in a 2010 robbery-gone-wrong.

You got 8 out of 12 answers correct in 20 minutes 30 seconds.